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The week before my daughter was born, I weighed 102kgs. My goal was to fill out the 100kgs weightclass and I was happy with my size. Mini Al’s birth wasn’t straightforward and she and Mrs Al ended up staying in hospital for almost a week afterwards. At the end of that week I had lost 5kgs in bodyweight and it stayed off for a good month or two afterwards despite my best efforts to get it back on. I really wanted to get bigger as I knew it would help my lifts and training but it seemed no matter what I did, I stayed at 97kgs. Around this time I remembered this story I had read:

"All of this came at a price though. I had no aerobic capacity, a large flight of stairs had me out of breath, I struggled to complete a decent training session in less than 2 hours and I was snoring like a beast. "

That's about where I am at right now after a similar approach to eating. Looking back, if I had to do it all over I may have added conditioning sessions in each week.